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The year was 1949. Bobby Lee Cook was handling one of his first-ever murder trials, defending a man who had killed another man who had called him a “goddamn son of a bitch.”During opening statements, the prosecutor told the Dade County, Ga., jurors that while calling someone this was a bad thing, it didn’t give the defendant the right to kill the man.Slowly, Cook rose from his chair at the defense table to approach the jury. “I have a question for you,” he asked the dozen in the box. “What would you have done if someone had called you a goddamn son of a bitch?”At that moment, an older mountain man with a long beard sitting at the back of the jury box whispered just loud enough for the other jurors to hear: “Why, I would have killed the son of a bitch.”“I had an entire opening statement planned,” Cook says. “But I just looked at the man, looked at the jurors, nodded, walked back to my chair and sat down.”The … [Read more...] about Bobby Lee Cook

Note: Members can now listen free online to this month’s CLE, “A Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched 100 Years of Federalism.”The case was United States v. Shipp. There were nine defendants, all charged with contempt of court—contempt of the Supreme Court, that is. The U.S. attorney general had filed the charges against them directly with the court, thus giving it original jurisdiction in the matter. The petition alleged that the defendants and other people engaged in actions “with the intent to show their contempt and disregard for the orders of this honorable court … and for the purpose of preventing Ed Johnson from exercising and enjoying a right secured to him by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”It was a full-blown trial. There were special prosecutors, dozens of witnesses and a special mas­ter assigned to take the evidence. The trial rec­ord exceeded 2,200 pages. Each side was given a full day of oral … [Read more...] about A Supreme Case of Contempt

Win or lose, picketing preacher Fred Phelps says he’ll get what he wants when the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether the First Amendment protects his tiny flock’s demonstrations outside slain soldiers’ funerals. His Kansas congregation complains that America has reached the brink of destruction by increased tolerance of gays in the military and national life.Phelps already has provoked outrage for years by toting signs crammed with gay-baiting slurs to services for dead soldiers. He sees the Supreme Court case as the mother lode.“Can you think of a better way to get free publicity?” asks Phelps, a disbarred lawyer and founder of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka. “This thing at the Supreme Court is worth millions. We’re on top of the pyramid now.”But while Phelps says free speech is on his side, Al Snyder says Phelps’ presence near his son’s 2006 funeral disrupted his First Amendment right to freely exercise his religion. … [Read more...] about Grave Encounters

Downfall of the Paralyzed Veterans Doctrine Grants Federal Agencies a “Dangerous Permission Slip for the Arrogation of Power” and Exposes the Regulated Community to Potentially Fatal Doses of Regulation Run Amok (a/k/a The Triple Whammy of Perez, Auer and Whitman)In the Spring of 2015, a troubling decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association,[1] stripped away the only practical protection available to the regulated community against the abusive regulatory agency practice of adopting ambiguous legislative rules and then re-interpreting them in almost whatever way the agency later deems appropriate. Commentators hinted at the quagmire it might create for the regulated community. Fast forward three months to June 2015 and the regulated community found itself quickly settling into the quicksand. I. OSHA’s PSM MemorandaIn June of 2015, after being liberated from the constraints of Paralyzed Veterans [2] by … [Read more...] about Downfall of Paralyzed Veterans Doctrine Grants Federal Agencies “Dangerous Permission Slip for Arrogation of Power”

CJI Khehar also denies his son is on any state government panel The Independence Day ceremony at the Supreme Court lawns today became a venue of some “polite” exchange between Supreme Court Bar Association President R S Suri and Chief Justice J S Khehar regarding children of judges or retired judges becoming judges and “80% of government panels being filled with sons and daughters of judges.It all started when SCBA President Suri in his speech while reminding Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Chief Justice J S Khehar who were on the dais “several matters of concern” said “then there is one issue again an empirical..that why most of the judges who become HC judges are sons of previous judges. Why is that 80% of panels are filled with sons and daughters of the judges? These things are there but some empirical but some logical things have to be there so that we give some chance for other people also to come up the ladder because they are able and … [Read more...] about Why The kith And Kin Of Judges Being Mostly Considered For Appointments? Asks SCBA President, If A Judge’s Child Has Calibre, He/She Can Become A Judge: CJI

22nd of December 2015, the day on which the Upper House passed the long pending Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2015 and thereby brought it into the Statute book, marks a black spot and a step backward in the history of the Juvenile Justice Regime of India. History of Juvenile Justice Regime in India In earlier days, the criminal justice system as available for adults was applied to a juvenile or the child irrespective of his age. The first legislation in India providing special treatment for children is the Apprentice Act 1850. The Act comprised of provisions for providing vocational training to convicted children as Apprentices to teach them trade, craft or employment for their rehabilitation.Under the Indian Penal Code which was enacted in the year 1860, a child below the age of 7 is considered as not capable of committing a crime (doli incapax). By virtue of s. 82, absolute immunity from criminal liability is provided to a child under the age of 7 years. … [Read more...] about Juvenile Justice Act 2015; An Emotional Aftermath of the Dreaded ‘Nirbhaya Incident’; A Step Backward

The Bombay High Court has refused to grant any relief to Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd and dismissed the notice of motion in a commercial suit filed against Sony Pictures, alleging copyright infringement.According to the plaintiffs, Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited illicitly copied Zee’s popular show India’s Best Dramebaaz, a televised talent hunt for child actors in 5 to 12 year age group. Zee alleged Sony infringed its copyright in its “concept note” and “production bible”.A production bible is a master document detailing various aspects of a production.Justice GS Patel dictated the order after hearing both parties at length.Senior advocate Ravi Kadam appeared for the plaintiffs (Zee), while senior advocate VV Tulzapurkar appeared for defendant Sony and senior advocate Janak Dwarkadas appeared for defendant No. 2 (Frames Production).At the very outset, outlining the premise of the submissions to be made by the plaintiffs, Justice … [Read more...] about No HC Relief To Zee In Copyright Case Against Sony On Kids’ Talent Show [Read Judgment]